Nature Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old nature quotes, nature sayings, and nature proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Alan Hovhaness

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If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.

Rachel Carson

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The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

Natalie Angier

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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Calvin Coolidge

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All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

John Lubbock

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Man is Nature's sole mistake.

W.S. Gilbert

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Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

E.H. Chapin

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

Edward Abbey

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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

Joseph Addison

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Brooks Adams

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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Lorraine Anderson

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H.G. Wells

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You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer.. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

Jeff Melvoin

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In nature there are neither rewards or punishments - there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Scott Westerfeld

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Dickens

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence

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Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlett

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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gary Snyder

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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Isaac Newton

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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Robin Williams

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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer.